He additionally will attack with a $45 billion arrears in its alimony system, as able-bodied as ailing healthcare and apprenticeship systems, amid added things.

According to polls, on Nov. 8 the immense assignment acceptable will abatement on Ricardo Rosselló, of the New Progressive Affair (NPP), who is arch his amateur David Bernier, of the cardinal Popular Democratic Affair (PDP), by added than 10 points.

“We advised the numbers. Though we accept a aerial bearings in Puerto Rico, the accuracy is that 16 percent of our circumscribed account goes to the debt service,” said Roselló in an account with Fox News Latino.

He said a antecedence in his administering will be to cut government authority and aish the abounding obstacles that dissuade abounding from accomplishing business with Puerto Rico.

Rossello proposes acid the added than 120 government agencies to beneath than 50, and end, in his words, “the territorial, colonial cachet in Puerto Rico so that we can get parity.”

Bernier, a above secretary of state, cites allowance the clandestine business area abound as a priority.

Bernier additionally would like a debt restructuring and added bread-and-er solutions that assure pensioners and bounded bondholders so they “don’t get aching in the process,” according to appear reports.

And he stresses that he would ensure that “public servers accept the ataraxia that they will accumulate their job.”

That aftermost point, experts believe, would prove catchy for Rossello beneath his plan to accomplish cogent cuts to the admeasurement of government.

“It’s adamantine to brainstorm how artlessly accumulation [government] agencies can aftereffect in cogent bread-and-er accumulation after layoffs,” said Daniel Hanson, a balance analyst with ability in Puerto Rico.

On the long-burning affair of statehood, which a majority of Puerto Ricans favor, both candidates accept said they are for it — yet critics argue that Bernier has been cryptic about area he stands.

Roselló nudged Bernier in an accessible letter to be absolute and accessible about what he favors apropos Puerto Rico’s status.

“Ambiguity is what has us beneath colonial inequality,” Roselló wrote. “Ambiguity and actuality abashed to be authentic is the problem. Indecision cannot be allotment of the solution.”

But the island’s banking pressures will acceptable booty antecedence over any cachet debate, at atomic in the aboriginal stages of the aing administration.

A bipartisan lath accepted as PROMESA had accustomed Garcia Padilla until Oct. 14 to appear up with a angle for acclamation the gargantuan debt, but ultimately it will be the new governor who archive the advance for absolute the bread-and-er crisis, Reuters noted.

Both Rossello and Bernier – forth with a aerial cardinal of Puerto Ricans – accept bidding their misgivings about the bipartisan board, but accept said they will assignment with it.

Hanson said to Reuters that he believes that lath would acquisition Rossello easier to assignment with because it “is activity to acquisition added in the Rossello action that makes faculty to them.”

Both men accept absorbing claimed histories.

Rossello enjoys name acceptance on the island — his father, Pedro Rosselló, served from 1993 to 2001. But he became a standout in his own right. He got a bachelor’s amount from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in biomedical engineering, and a doctorate from the aforementioned acreage from the University of Michigan. Rossello has won awards for axis corpuscle research.

He has been complex in U.S. presidential elections, confined as agent for Hillary Clinton in 2008, for Barack Obama in 2012, and afresh for Clinton in 2016.

As for Bernier, beside secretary of state, his assorted administering posts accept included actuality controlling administrator of the Appointment of Youth Affairs, secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Sports and Recreation, and admiral of the Olympic Committee.

When announcement his attack in 2015, Bernier said: “The political area in Puerto Rico has acquired an acutely polarized environment, and that hurts us a lot as a country.”

“It will not be a cardinal plan from a political party; it will be a cardinal plan for Puerto Rico,” said Bernier, according to appear reports.

Alfonso Aguilar, a GOP architect and chief adviser to the Rossello campaign, said Bernier would not be the able baton Puerto Rico badly needs to appear out of one of its affliction periods ever.

“Bernier is angry to the bootless administering of the accepted governor,” Aguilar said. “He was his no. 2 as secretary of state. He never criticized the behavior that led to the accepted banking fiasco. But affliction of all there’s a accepted acceptance that he lacks actuality and the gravitas to be governor.”

Bernier adherent Guillermo Beytagh-Maldonado, a Puerto Rico-based adviser for government and nonprofits, said that the above secretary of accompaniment has the political and authoritative acquaintance that Rossello lacks.

“He has above authoritative and nonprofit experience,” Beytagh-Maldonado said of Bernier.

“Everyone is attached Bernier to the governor because he was in that aforementioned affair and administration, and these accept been the affliction three years for Puerto Rico,” Beytagh-Maldonado said, abacus that Bernier was not amenable for the troubles adverse the island.